Today on Capitol Hill, Bob Barker and Jorja Fox will join Animal
Defenders International, the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and
members of Congress to launch a Bill that would end the use of wild animals
in circuses in the USA.

The Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act is the first bill to
comprehensively tackle the use of all wild animals in US circuses ever to be
launched in the U.S. It is a chance to break the chain of circus animal
suffering in the U.S. once and for all.

Careful research and detailed undercover investigations carried out by
ADI in U.S. traveling circuses have shown the welfare of animals is
unacceptably compromised.

The animals endure confinement, physical and social deprivation, long,
arduous journeys, brutal control methods and physical violence. The training
tools of the circus trade include bullhooks, electric prods, and whips.

Large animals like lions and tigers spend their lives cramped in small
cages, and elephants are forced to live chained by one or more legs for
hours on end.

In addition, traveling circuses pose a serious threat to public safety,
as the keeping of wild, stressed animals in dangerously close proximity to
the public is a recipe for disaster. Incidents of circus workers and members
of the public having been killed and maimed by circus animals are well
documented.

ADI�s evidence shows how law enforcement authorities have difficulty
enforcing Federal animal health, safety, and welfare laws, and violations
due to the mobile and transitory nature of traveling circuses.

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